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GrooVy Movies

A good food story makes you hungry, inspires you to make new dishes or even order in a certain type of food. It is, in effect, food porn. It ignites your fire for the epicurean delights that await you in this wide world, with it’s presentation, focus, writing or dialogue about the food. Really good foodie movies do this through the eyes of one or more culinarily impassioned characters and imbue you with the fever of their love, inspiring you to greater heights.

Whenever I am sick and I am in need of a little nurturing, movies like these help me to feel a bit less deprived, satiating my desires through the sights, sounds and tastes described therein.

Here’s my ever-growing list of Foodie Movies in alphabetical order along with subsections on those with cannabalistic overtones, food documentaries and non-food movies that have great food scenes or food conversations in them. This list is a work-in-progress and is by no means exhaustive, feel free to post your own favorites for me to explore and add to the list and the site.

Cannibalistic Cuisine

Then there are movies at which some may others cringe for being on my list. I can understand the trepidation some others may have at inclusion of these fine stories, because though they are technically food movies that have an unappetizing main course that may leave some stomachs turning.

The Cook, Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

This, for me, is one of the finest foodie movies there is, not only for it’s beautiful presentations of food as well as the phenomenal lighting and artistic direction, that make this film truly a visual feast, but because food is integral to the story – not just as setting but as device and quite literally, in the end as character. This one knocks it out of the park especially for someone like me, who enjoys both reading and cooking. The idea of falling in love through one’s love for food (and books ) is utterly sumptuous. Plus, it stars the incomparable (and sumptuous in her own right), Helen Mirren. This one is a MUST SEE on my foodie list.

Sweet Movie — The chocolate scene is referenced as sensual by some (there are other food scenes as well — sugar, eggs, beef tongue, mother’s milk) but taken as a whole, this movie is largely VERY unappetizing and I cannot recommend it. I include it only to warn off those who may hear of it as a “foodie movie” (as I did) and who will be greatly disappointed. If you’re dying to see the chocolate scene, check it out on Youtube and save yourself the agony of onscreen defecation, group vomiting, pedophilia (horrifically, real underage boys in a very unsettling situation) and incongruent plotting.